GONZALES — An 18-year-old from Gonzales, as well as a juvenile, has been arrested on several charges connected to vehicle thefts in Ascension Parish.

Ascension deputies began investigating the theft of a vehicle along Thurston McCrory Road on Monday. Surveillance footage shows multiple suspects arriving in a pickup truck before one person got out of the truck, got into another car parked at a home along Thurston McCrory and drove away. 

Deputies later found the stolen car in St. Amant and tried to pull the driver over when he led deputies on a chase that ended at a business along La. 429. Deputies said a juvenile was taken into custody as a result. 

Deputies also arrested Nicholas Wactor on two counts of simple burglary of a vehicle, as well as felony theft of a motor vehicle, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and misdemeanor theft after both Wactor and the juvenile were connected to two vehicle burglaries that happened the same night. 

Wactor was booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on a $145,000 bond.